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This Microbe Withstands an Incredible Range of Pressures

Mystery of Ancient Space Superstorms Deepens

Historic Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows

Made-Up Sounds Convey Meaning across Cultures

Giant Mud Volcano Reveals Its Powerful Explosive Secrets

A Tsunami Likely Hurled Huge Rocks onto a Tiny Island

Towering Sequoias Are Even Bigger Than Thought, Laser Scans Suggest

Faraway Magma Reservoirs Complicate Volcano Monitoring

Red Stalagmites Reveal Glimpses of the Past

Volcanic Eruptions Detected from Space

Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Get a Bounce from Ephemeral Lakes

Radar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catch

Stranded coral boulders point to a medieval tsunami in the Caribbean

Museum artifacts rewrite the timeline of gold refining

Repurposed drug battles ‘brain-eating’ amoeba

Signs of Pinochet’s coup spotted in Chilean tree rings

‘False’ tree rings could provide a new record of long-ago hurricanes

Scientists determine the age of one of Africa’s most famous trees

The Maya built the Western Hemisphere’s first water filtration system

After an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ocean microbes helped life rebound

Giant waves of sand are moving on Mars

Earthquakes trigger landslides. Can landslides also trigger earthquakes?

World’s loudest bands create seismic waves

…and 45+ others

On Blueprinting Earth’s Ecosystems

A Commuter Ferry Built Like a Racing Boat

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago

Juno reveals dozens of lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io

An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big

…and 20+ others

The USDA Updated Its Gardening Map, But Downplays Connection to Climate Change

Some Farmers Are Skipping Tomatoes and Eggplants. Their Reasons May Surprise You.

In the Race for Clean Energy, Is Offshore Wind Harming the Nation’s Fisheries?

Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others Follow?

This Antioxidant May Provide a Key Link Between Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health

Volcano Patrol

The Massive Work That Goes Into Remodeling an Old Aircraft Carrier

New Aluminum ‘Foam’ Makes Trains Stronger, Lighter, and Safer

The French School Where Panama Canal Pilots Train in Cute Little Ships

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The Long and the Weak of It—The Ediacaran Magnetic Field

When Cascadia Gives Way, the San Andreas Sometimes Follows

Satellite Data Reveal Changing Lakes Under Antarctic Ice

An Asteroid Impact May Have Led to Flooding near the Grand Canyon

A Flash, a Boom, a New Microbe Habitat

Spiky Sand Features Can Reveal the Timing of Ancient Earthquakes

Submerged Crater near Europe Tied to an Impact

A Survey of the Kuiper Belt Hints at an Unseen Planet

A Burst of Subglacial Water Cracked the Greenland Ice Sheet

Fossilized Micrometeorites Record Ancient CO2 Levels

Scientists Spot Sputtering on Mars

Cheese in the Time of Industrial Farming and Climate Change

…and 250+ others

Telescope Operators

Our Galactic Neighborhood

Big Island Astronomy

Mobius Strips Made of Light for the First Time

Quantum Cryptography Goes a Long Way

Proteins as Shock Absorbers

Emptiness Constrains the Universe

…and 30+ others

Physicists get a surprise when watching quasicrystals grow

Carbon nanotubes bring aircraft manufacturing out of the oven

Physicists generate electrical currents from noise

Acoustic topological insulator could hide submarines

Virus mapped in 3D using X-ray pulses

Fractal-like honeycombs take the strain

Nuclear spins control electrical currents

Carbonaceous ‘cosmic barometer’ reveals universe’s history

Optical tweezers grab nanometre-sized objects